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September 19, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Blogging the Thai Coup
Some of you may have read about the coup d'etat that's going on in Thailand right now, in which a faction of the Thai military led by army chief Gen. Sonthi Boonyaratkalin and Thailand's opposition Party of Democratic Reform seized control of the country while Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was in New York preparing to address the U.N.
Details are still sketchy about the goings-on inside the country, but this blog has a really good blow by blow account of how the coup is being experienced by ordinary Thai citizens, including a re-post (via YouTube) of an eerie TV broadcast from a spokesman for the PDR translated into English.
From the broadcast: "From Committee of Political Reformation Under Democracy: As it is clearly seen that the current government has caused the society to be fragmented, many people are skeptical of how the government is being run. Corruption has occurred. This is the worst in our history. This has caused many parties to come close to challenging the King's power. There have been attempts to solve this problem but they have been unsuccessful.This situation has made it necessary for the Committee - consisting of the heads of the military branches and the National Police, to take over the power from this point."
Hmm...society is fragmented? people are skeptical of how the government is being run? Corruption has occurred? Attempts to solve the problem that have failed? Sound familiar??
As we all know, democracy is fragile.
Posted by Paul Roberts on September 19, 2006 12:41 PM
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This coup was maybe not that detrimental to democracy actually.
Well at least it was good for business: things are going up again now after months of stagnation due to the political inaction.
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